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Coffee Power

       Scientists have whirled coffee waste into electricity for the first time, in research that could assist farmers and curb pollution in the developing world.      The coffee industry produces a huge amount of liquid waste during the procedure of turning the fresh material of the tree, the coffee cherries, into the 9.5m tons of coffee the world generates each year. While coffee waste has been utilized as biofuel before, and compacted to be sold as “biologs” to be burned, the project is supposed to be the first to generate electricity from such waste .
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Who invented Coffee Power?

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  Arthur Kay trained in architecture at University College London. While developing a blueprint for a coffee roaster he saw the potential in turning the business' waste into energy.
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Startups In The Field of Coffee Power

      ` The coffee-growing business in Honduras is one of many rural-based industry sectors that require electricity. The Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) has partnered with the U.S. government and the Dutch-based development agency SNV to reuse the pulp and mucilage by products of coffee beans as biofuel. The project also assists lessen negative effects of coffee production on the atmosphere.      For London-based entrepreneur Arthur Kay, using coffee grounds are the distinct waste—they are an important reserve and an untapped reservoir of energy. The company he established, bio-bean, is collaborating with coffee shops and coffee makers to transform their natural by-product into a spectrum of advanced biofuels on an industrial scale. Arthur Kay trained in architecture at University College London. While developing a blueprint for a coffee roaster he saw the potential in turning the business' waste into energy.      Given...
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  Coffee can generate electricity To get info on coffee generating electricity, Click here UK scientists turn coffee industry waste into electricity It has been found that coffee waste can be turned into electricity. To know more, Click here Direct power generation from waste coffee Here’s a report on power generation from waste coffee grounds in a biomass fuel cell - Click here
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